The Cloud Camp San Francisco event featured a series of lightning talks from industry experts, covering topics such as cloud computing platforms like Nebula, utility pricing, DevOps, and telecommunications innovation. The discussions highlighted the importance of flexibility, scalability, and security in cloud infrastructure, with examples from companies like NASA, Twitter, and Zynga. The event also explored emerging trends like big data, high-performance computing, and telephony services, which are being treated as software and opened up for developers to use. The "un-panel" segment addressed questions on private clouds, design patterns, security issues, and more, providing insights into the current state of cloud computing and its potential for innovation.